Kiwi

Judging by the photo, your other half is a bit of a looker too. Well done on both fronts, son.

not so long ago you could pick one up for about £250, if they're selling for £500 thats a hell of an investment!

Its all really interesting stuff guys! Thanks for the inputs so far. I hope it keeps coming.

Just so everyone is aware, the problems with the poll before were because the poll didn't let you answer only one question and then vote. Everyone has to answer all three questions before posting their vote. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I didn't realise this so I've added null categories to the last two questions as well.

Ped and I have been blatting back and forth ideas for how to develop the forum for quite a while now. The dilemna for us is that whatever we do, we would like the site to continue to grow. However, with the number of forums and the amount of opportunity there is for making the site more useful and easier, the off-the-shelf forum software becomes a little limiting because its not designed to be tailored much. It's designed for ease of management. It's possible we could potentially look at developing bespoke forum software if there was a way to tailor the site more specifically for the way in which its used by the members. However, obviously before any of this stuff is considered feasible, we need to test our assumptions about what would be valued by members and whether its worth doing it anyway. I know some of you will think 'whats wrong with the forum the way it is now'. Fair enough, thats why I've put a poll together. The core areas of interest that Ped and I see the site having for everyone are (in no particular order) 1) Socialising 2) Information 3) Promotion (Have I missed anything out?) There are some parts of the forum, such as the Off Topic that appears to fill the social networking side of things. Its possible, for example, that we could look at enhancing the site so that it had some features similar to Facebook/Myspace. Perhaps each member could be offered a more sophisticated profile page with enhanced features eg. media streaming, status updates from friends, photo album, band pages etc. There are some parts of the forum such as the Affiliates forum that caters for the promotional side of things, which we could potentially turn into more of a shop front. Similar to some of the online retailers such as Thomann. This would be contained under a completely separate section but it would be relatively easy to track orders etc. It would offer any members with commercial interests, but not enough expertise or time to set up their own web-based shop front, a way of getting a web presence for their products. In terms of information, the wiki is consistently underutilised by members but still provides a potentially valuable repository of collected wisdom. It would be nice to integrate that more successfully within the forum. OK. The reality is that, if this were to go ahead, unless we have a member within the community who would be prepared to help us develop the site for low upfront cost, then obviously someone is going to want to be paid for their time in programming new forum software. So the $64.000 questions are would you all, as members, be prepared to pay a yearly subscription for enhanced usefulness? If you didn't want to pay for it but still wanted the features, would you be prepared to tolerate additional advertising? There is the potential for us to approach a company I know of who would offer to cover the development costs in exchange for a share of the promotional revenue (I guess its a bit like a record company deal). NB: Just to make it clear - THERE ARE NO DEFINITE PLANS TO CHANGE THE FORUM. We just want to put out a feeler to see what people think about the potential on offer.

welcome mate, show us ya growler?

I'd better check my email box as well, looks like he sent a flurry out this evening. EDIT: nope I feel rejected.

all the F-basses I've tried have sounded even better than they've looked.

[quote name='ARGH' post='323779' date='Nov 6 2008, 10:12 PM']Well,not my opinon...but the Opinion of Spectors company and its associates,enough to warrent legal terms and thus the said deal,as reported in Bassplayer magazine,sometime in the 90s..If I recall correctly its was Spectors daughter that broke the news of the deal....the likeness was a little too close iirc.[/quote] OK, I'm interested to know why they didn't press ahead with legal action. Maybe they didn't register the body shape as a trademark outside the US perhaps. Still, a lot of it goes on.

Still waiting for responses to my PM's about postage costs.

I'm still waiting for a response from you Matt.

OK Heroine Diaries has gone. Mrs Tinman is getting me the postage for the Croc diaries but I've had no postage yet from anyone else. And in particular no response to repeated PMs I've sent to Overwater#1. I've wrapped all this stuff up in bubblewrap and packing paper order to get postage costs and that took the best part of an afternoon.

[quote name='ARGH' post='323692' date='Nov 6 2008, 07:45 PM']And ,If I recall,was threatend with legal action,because the license was not renewed. And had to again be re-renewed when Spector regained the rights to his company and patents.[/quote] Indeed, so lets be clear that [i]technically[/i] its not stolen at all because there [i]are[/i] sufficient differences between the shapes. It's just that [i]in your opinion[/i] the shape is stolen. I don't think you don't make that clarification often enough in what you post. Besides which lets not forget Fender clones, Behringer, Status clones, Pangborn borrowing the Jaydee shape which was borrowed from the Alembic Series 1/2, then Alembic used the Fender Dual Showman preamp design which was borrowed in turn by Trace Elliot and then Hartke, blah blah blah.

[quote name='ARGH' post='323655' date='Nov 6 2008, 06:42 PM']Yeah,That ran through my head too? Has Hans AGAIN stolen an idea/design?[/quote] If you're referring to Hans Wilfer stealing the Spector shape, he actually licensed the body shape from Stuart Spector originally. If not, which shape were you referring to?

lets get in there and spend our dosh.

Certainly some unprecedented porn there. I don't know of another place that has such a high proportion of high spec instruments in its stock.

[quote name='alexclaber' post='323205' date='Nov 6 2008, 08:43 AM']Maybe in your experience but your experience is clearly too limited! This cab can produce far more low frequency output than any non-neo cabs of similar size let alone weight: [url="http://barefacedbass.com/thebigone.html"]http://barefacedbass.com/thebigone.html[/url] Alex[/quote] I thought we had a policy on this forum about commercial promotion?

[quote name='drthirkenstein' post='323162' date='Nov 6 2008, 03:07 AM']in my experience neo speakers cant produce any where near the same levels of low frequency as the heavy buggers. as a general rule the heavier your equipment the better it sounds! besides its character building![/quote] neo cones have a slight mid hump to them. Its probably that emphasis that you're hearing rather than a lack of anything else.

[quote name='peted' post='322709' date='Nov 5 2008, 03:10 PM']We have our winner! Sorry, no prize I think i'll add everything else you've put after to the spec as well. I wonder if I did that whether Jon will ever speak to me again?[/quote] He would be howling for my blood. Custom features are both a blessing and a curse for him. He doesn't make a lot of money on the additional features people request and the extra time he spends doing them suck up any earnings he had from making the instrument. However the custom bits do provide him with some interest outside the normal models.

[quote name='thedontcarebear' post='322665' date='Nov 5 2008, 02:01 PM']Buzz Feiten or something?[/quote] Oooh a GUESSING game. Goody goody goody, now let me see... A Status bendwell? A Kubicki drop D extension? A kahler whammy? An onboard valve preamp? A fanned fret fingerboard? An onboard directional air conditioning system for one-foot-on-the-monitor bass solos? A Dalek voice impersonator? A novelty, flavoured, crushed ice dispenser? A 12v powered mini fridge? A combination marital aid/grasping tool/sink plunger with advanced Quantum X (tm) technology for the closest shave ever?

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